University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
Three Bruins Earn NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships
June 21, 1999 | Bruin Athletics
Aug. 24, 1998
UCLA's Josh Keller (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Josh Johnson (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Nada Kawar (Montrose, Calif.) were awarded NCAA postgraduate scholarships.
The NCAA annually awards 174 postgraduate scholarships (worth $5,000) to student-athletes who have excelled academically and athletically and are in their last year of intercollegiate athletics competition.
Keller, captain of the 1997 NCAA Championship men's soccer team, earned the first-ever NCAA postgraduate scholarship by a UCLA soccer player. In 1997, Keller earned all-tournament honors at the 1997 Final Four and was a second-team All-Far West selection. He was drafted in the first round of the Major League Soccer collegiate draft and currently plays for the Chicago Fire. Keller plans to pursue a master's degree in business administration.
Three-time track and field All-American Johnson is one of the top javelin throwers in the nation and recently represented the United States at the 1998 Goodwill Games. Johnson won the 1997 Pac-10 and 1998 Cal-Nevada javelin championships. He plans to study management and entreprenuership in graduate school. Johnson is the third men's track and field athlete from UCLA to earn a postgraduate scholarship.
Nineteen-ninety-six Olympian Kawar becomes UCLA women's track and field's second postgraduate scholarship recipient. Kawar was a five-time All-American and also earned first-team Academic All-American acclaim in 1998. The two-time Pac-10 shot put champion will attend medical school.
UCLA has now had a total of 48 NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients.
